Agrajag

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I eat a plant based diet and it is definitely not more expensive, but in a utopian society that didn't give massive subsidies to big meat and big dairy, it would be a lot cheaper. The fact that soy milk is more expensive than regular milk boggles the mind. The cows are eating the soybeans, but liquid made from the soybean directly is somehow more expensive than milk from a cow.

 

The first thing to say about Chuck Schumer’s Antisemitism in America: A Warning is that nobody wants this book. No blurbs, reviews, or endorsements grace its cover. The only praise for the author’s half-century as an elected official can be found inside the book’s pages, from Schumer himself. The curious reader who looks at the back cover will instead be greeted with an excerpt from the book that promises “the specter of antisemitism haunting the American continent” threatens the foundations of the United States itself. Yet the specter haunting the back cover is the senator himself, who appears above the quoted passage, reading glasses resting slightly askew on the bridge of his nose, with a sly smile. Though sounding an alarm, he seems completely at ease.

[–] Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Every news source has bias, Al Jazeera has over 3000 staff, over 400 journalists and access that comes along with being that massive of a news agency. Obviously they are biased towards reporting that favors the government of Qatar who funds them. Particularly if a lot of stuff is happening in the middle east and Al Jazeera has more journalists in those countries with better connections to those countries they are gonna be first to cover a lot of things in the region. They are also much less likely to use passive voice and other qualification when talking about things like Palestine in their reporting. A lot of people don't want to read "50 Palestinians are shot" instead of "IDF battalion kills 50 Palestinians".

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